One of the highlights of Oracle Open World 2008 for me was the presentation by Bryn Llewellyn (PL/SQL Product Manager) on “Doing SQL in PL/SQL.”
Bryn surely has the most thorough and clear understanding of the PL/SQL language of anyone I have met (definitely including me).
His talk was detailed and precise (and maybe just a little bit overwhelming. He needed twice the time allotted) on this most important topic.
The bad news about this talk is that most PL/SQL developers will never be able to hear Bryn present it.
The good news is that everything he talks about (and more) may be found in a newly published whitepaper of the same name.
Your understanding of PL/SQL will increase dramatically, as will your ability to write high quality PL/SQL programs, by reading both of these papers.
Thanks, Bryn!